PSYoungGen Collector Using Tenuring Age

This section demonstrates that the PSYoungGen Collector uses Tenuring Age to perform Young generation GC. But it does not maintain the object age distribution list.

Does the PSYoungGen collector use Tenuring Age Distribution? Let's use our second test program, GarbageCollection2.java to find out:

herong> \progra~1\java\jdk1.8.0\bin\java -XX:+UseParallelGC \
   -Xms1200m -Xmx1200m -XX:NewRatio=1 -XX:SurvivorRatio=1 \
   -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps \
   -XX:+PrintTenuringDistribution GarbageCollection2 > output.txt
(Ctrl-C)

herong> more output.txt

0.199: [GC (Allocation Failure)
Desired survivor size 209715200 bytes, new threshold 7 (max 15)
   [PSYoungGen: 203779K->32024K(409600K)]
   203779K->32028K(1024000K), 0.0161477 secs]

0.246: [GC (Allocation Failure)
Desired survivor size 209715200 bytes, new threshold 7 (max 15)
   [PSYoungGen: 236745K->32000K(409600K)]
   236749K->32004K(1024000K), 0.0160974 secs]

...
2.668: [GC (Allocation Failure)
Desired survivor size 33292288 bytes, new threshold 1 (max 15)
   [PSYoungGen: 580330K->31744K(581888K)]
   583671K->35085K(1196288K), 0.0121899 secs]

Heap
 PSYoungGen      total 581888K, used 312786K [...
  eden space 549376K, 51% used [0x2a000000,0x3b274700,0x4b880000)
  from space 32512K, 97% used [0x4d840000,0x4f7401f0,0x4f800000)
  to   space 32512K, 0% used [0x4b880000,0x4b880000,0x4d840000)
 ParOldGen       total 614400K, used 3341K [...
  object space 614400K, 0% used [0x04800000,0x04b43588,0x2a000000)
 Metaspace used 1571K, capacity 2242K, committed 2368K, reserved 4480K

The output confirms that the PSYoungGen collector does use tenuring age to control when to promote live objects in "from" space to "tenured" generation.

But the PSYoungGen collector does not maintain the object age distribution list as we saw for the Serial collector.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 Heap Memory Area and Size Control

 JVM Garbage Collection Logging

 Introduction of Garbage Collectors

 Serial Collector - "+XX:+UseSerialGC"

Parallel Collector - "+XX:+UseParallelGC"

 What Is Parallel Collector

 Parallel Collector GC Log Message Format

 "-XX:+PrintGCTaskTimeStamps" - Print GC Threads

 "-XX:ParallelGCThreads=n" - # of Threads

 Parallel Collector Stops Application for Minor/Major GC

PSYoungGen Collector Using Tenuring Age

 Parallel Collector Changing NewRatio and SurvivorRatio

 Parallel Collector Adaptive Size Policy

 Adaptive Size Policy Log Messages

 "-XX:+PrintAdaptiveSizePolicy" - Minor GC Report

 Adaptive Size Policy Changed Survivor Space

 Adaptive Size Policy Changed Eden Space

 Adaptive Size Policy for Best Latency

 Adaptive Size Policy for Best Throughput

 Concurrent Mark-Sweep (CMS) Collector - "+XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC"

 Garbage First (G1) Collector - "+XX:+UseG1GC"

 Object References and Garbage Collection

 Garbage Collection Performance Test Program

 Performance Tests on Serial Collector

 Performance Tests on Parallel collector

 Performance Tests on Concurrent collector

 Performance Tests on G1 collector

 Garbage Collection Performance Test Summary

 Archived Tutorials

 References

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